Value Study, available for free on iPhone and iPad, is a tool to help people who're trying to learn to draw or paint. It works by building upon the timeless technique of value studies (such as Nōtan) in which someone will try to distill real life or colour photos into simple black and white shapes. These can be as simple or as complex as you like, but the hard part is seeing the light and shadow while ignoring the colour.
You don’t need to know your trees from your dangling blobs, if you use Git every day and feel like it’s a juggling act then here’s some tricks and tips to help make your life a bit easier when using Git.
Every year I see all the incredible Halloween projects that people make. I've never had much opportunity to play around with hardware so it always feels like too big of a task to try. This year however I had a Raspberry Pi Zero W on the side and a small bit of time to make something. As with all my side projects I wanted to use the time to learn something new.
One Sunday I was having breakfast with a friend and got talking about team structures and how projects vary. It was a really useful discussion and I felt that other people might find conversations like that useful too, this idea very quickly became Interviews by Shane Hudson. I began building it that day and within just over a week I published the website with five interviews.
You know that feeling where you've done something but it isn't quite ready to show anyone? It's 14th June 2019 today and I wrote the first blog post about AR Bookmarks in September 2018. It's not ready to use yet, but it's getting close so I finally feel I can publish those early posts. I should have done it straight away but didn't want to put out vapourware.
My book, JavaScript Creativity, was published by Apress in 2014. I used a mixture of various technologies from canvas and webgl through to video and web rtc, to explore the fun and crazy things that we can do on the web. Essentially it was my playground that I used to push the limits of the web.
Jeremy Keith summed it up nicely in the foreword as “a snapshot of the cutting edge of what’s possible in web browsers today”
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In September 2020 I joined Definition Health, a small company founded by two NHS consultants with the aim to improve quality of care using both patient and clinician facing digital products.
Authory makes tools for journalists. I helped them with their frontend, making sure it is as easy to work with as possible.
During 2018-2019 I worked again with Lime Microsystems, this time to build LimeSCAN a geographic data analysis system for radio frequencies. This consisted of a fleet of Raspberry Pi and a Vue.js based front-end.
For three years (2017-2020) I worked within the team at NHS Digital on 111 online to ensure excellent accessibility and performance of the website. In this time it's gone from GDS private beta through to a live service helping millions of people get medical help.
I helped to develop Saga's rebranded homepage and various components for use across the organisation.
My task with Vroomi was to prototype how an office environment would work in virtual reality. Using A-Frame and Vue.js I was able to iterate quickly and experiment with lots of ideas.
I used Vue.js (with server side rendering) in 2017 to create a fast reliable website for viewing Lime Microsystems' multiple Ubuntu white-labelled app stores.
I worked with StreetTeam in early 2017, to help maintain and improve their systems using modern front-end technologies and mindset.
Elbi hired me for two months to improve the campaign creation process for their admin and charity tools.
Cowdray is a large estate based in Midhurst, just down the road from me, so I was excited when Alex Stanhope from 247 Creative approached me to help develop their new website. It was a fully responsive redesign that needed to bring together all of the parts of the estate into a single cohesive website.
I worked with Optimum Consulting for 3 months working on Employee Life, their Employee Relationship Management. Most of my time was spent creating admin tools for creating reports of activity across the platform.
In January 2016 I was looking for a fun project to start the year, FractalToy did not disappoint. I was hired to add WebVR (with Oculus Rift support) to their WebGL raycaster to explore 3D fractals in virtual reality.